Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
(Edward Bulwer Lytton)
(1803 - 1873)
A very popular British Victorian novelist and politician. He served as secretary of state for the colonies under the Earl of Derby and his son was Governor-General and Viceroy of India. His dissolute life style resulted in his wife divorcing him and he dabbled in the occult.
Bibliography
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
A tangled tale of love and deceit unfolds beneath Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D. and comes to a climax with the volcano’s eruption